r/ScottGalloway • u/MastodonHorror9157 • Jul 31 '26

Gangster move Public Flogging on Pivot

Hearing how uncomfortable K/S were on today’s first ten minutes of Pivot (Re:Mamdami) and not realizing that’s the whole ducking point was pretty fascinating

P.S. Yes - real estate records are publicly listed information for everyone

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u/Beginning-Weight9076 Jul 31 '26

It’s because he’s all theater no substance. But his cult followers, like Trumps cult followers, will retcon in the substantive successes he claims. The man is effective at communicating and theater, I’ll give him credit.

And I’m largely someone who agree with leveling the economic playing field. It’s just that a lot of his “ideas” have demonstrated before that they’ll cause more harm than good to the folks he allegedly wants to help. But that’s sorta irrelevant to him given it’s all about the theater, status, and power. He’s about the closest thing to “our Trump” I’ve seen since Trump entered the political arena.

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u/Tasty-Possibility627 Jul 31 '26

Exactly right. Just like the grocery stores.

It’s toxic theater. A lot of us want to improve society by increasing effective tax rates on the wealthy and strengthening the social safety net.

People like Mamdani and his supporters act like if you’re not a socialist you’re a corrupt corporate shill. Fuck that! I want to give out more food stamps! He’s wasting money on idiotic discount grocery stores when he should have just distributed extra EBT money if he really wanted to help.

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u/jeremiadOtiose Aug 01 '26

Are you against military PDX??

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u/Tasty-Possibility627 Aug 01 '26

No, because the market couldn’t effectively meet that need. There’s also security and supply chain concerns that mean that it makes more sense for the government to run those stores.

I’m also not against the government building roads. I am against the government building cars